astroman

To me he says it all at 43:30..... he actually didn't think there was increased risk when he flew into a confined space [or with inclement weather]. You may well get away with this stuff 99 times out of a hundred, but if you continue to put yourself in a high risk environment, it will bite you eventually.

Good effort! But if the right wing had fallen off it would be spinning in the other direction.... Lift coming from left wing :)

You can tell it's BS because the link starts with "www.news.com.au"

I have the same issue with one of my polarised pairs of sunnies but not another one.. The lenses are angled 90 degrees to each other, if that makes sense!

Maybe there was no fuel left in the tanks? There really is no excuse for running out of fuel these days, but it seems to happen quite often...

Maybe there was no fuel left in the tanks? There really is no excuse for running out of fuel these days, but it seems to happen quite often...

This kind of incident is scary because it is not a case of somebody failing to adhere to protocols, but simple human error. The kind of error that causes huge crashes with loss of life. Good thing the controller was on the ball in the end!

My dad has had one of these in a hangar out in the wheatbelt for 20 years... I should really pull it out and take some photos. It is almost identical to this one except it's yellow and doesn't have the back part of the pod. I never realised it was an early rotax engine!

passenger in the back seat probably got a haircut!! Scary

What a beautiful aeroplane. True pornography. At least it appears to be fixable :)

US Rego as well... I wonder how long the aircraft had been in Australia for

We all know what happens when you dip a wheel in the water on a beach after seeing the video of the Jab on the beach... Hanging from the straps upside down with waves crashing against the aircraft would be a pretty frightening experience :/

The report is out at last!! I'm off to work now but should be a good read tonight when I get home http://atsb.com.au/media/4888846/ao-2011-126_final.pdf

Beautiful old Cessna. Shame to lose another of the few tail draggers around :(

It's starting to look more and more like an attack... 2 passengers travelling on stolen passports (how does that even happen in this day and age?) and 2 more "being investigated". FBI and NTSB are both sending teams. Parallels between Air France 447 and this have been made in the sense that people jumped to this conclusion and it turned out to be pilot error, but that crash happened in a pretty severe storm and this was a clear night. It's hard to imagine how an experienced captain and co pilot can crash a modern airliner when they are cruising at 35,000.